Thinking about our own death and its salience in relation to decision making has become a fruitful area of multidisciplinary research across the breadth of psychological science. By bringing together experts from philosophy, cognitive and affective neuroscience, clinical and computational psychiatry we have attempted to set out the current state of the art and point to areas of further enquiry. One stimulus for doing this is the need to engage with policy makers who are now having to consider guidelines on suicide and assisted suicide so that they may be aware of their own as well as the wider populations' cognitive processes when confronted with the ultimate truth of mortality
Although the Covid-19 pandemic has reintroduced death and dying into awareness and debate, these top...
Background: This project was prompted by the ambition to investigate, from the outset, thepotential ...
The answer was to develop an educational approach to death and dying, an approach that would de-myst...
Death is rarely a comfortable topic for people to think about and discuss, yet it’s critical that as...
For each of eight literature-identified conceptual dimensions of mortality awareness, questionnaire ...
Original article can be found at : http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/ Reproduced with the permissi...
A thesis submitted to the University of Bedfordshire, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for ...
This paper offers some personal reflections on the idea of ‘a good death’, a theme in the writing of...
With few exceptions, much of the literature on mortality awareness (MA; the realization of one’s own...
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this literature review and synthesis of data was to consider the presen...
Death and dying are still taboo subjects in today’s society. In most Western countries, people die p...
This paper offers some personal reflections on the idea of ‘a good death’, a theme in the writing of...
In this article I set out to discuss the end of human life and to touch on a controversial anddelica...
From Preface: The present study attempts to explore, both theoretically and empirically, some implic...
Aims To explore if and how information about a transition to a palliative care approach was communi...
Although the Covid-19 pandemic has reintroduced death and dying into awareness and debate, these top...
Background: This project was prompted by the ambition to investigate, from the outset, thepotential ...
The answer was to develop an educational approach to death and dying, an approach that would de-myst...
Death is rarely a comfortable topic for people to think about and discuss, yet it’s critical that as...
For each of eight literature-identified conceptual dimensions of mortality awareness, questionnaire ...
Original article can be found at : http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/ Reproduced with the permissi...
A thesis submitted to the University of Bedfordshire, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for ...
This paper offers some personal reflections on the idea of ‘a good death’, a theme in the writing of...
With few exceptions, much of the literature on mortality awareness (MA; the realization of one’s own...
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this literature review and synthesis of data was to consider the presen...
Death and dying are still taboo subjects in today’s society. In most Western countries, people die p...
This paper offers some personal reflections on the idea of ‘a good death’, a theme in the writing of...
In this article I set out to discuss the end of human life and to touch on a controversial anddelica...
From Preface: The present study attempts to explore, both theoretically and empirically, some implic...
Aims To explore if and how information about a transition to a palliative care approach was communi...
Although the Covid-19 pandemic has reintroduced death and dying into awareness and debate, these top...
Background: This project was prompted by the ambition to investigate, from the outset, thepotential ...
The answer was to develop an educational approach to death and dying, an approach that would de-myst...